The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-30

| Savannah he would not know what time he
had, and the best he could do would be to
hunt up one of the public clocks and APP
proximate the time
ONLY TWO CITIES.
Capt. Fleming said that standard time
has been adopted by every city in the
! United States except Savannah and Column
bus, o. Charleston, Augusta, Atlanta,
Macon, Jacksonville all use it, and find no
difficulty, but Savannah employers seem to
think that if they should move their clocks
back thirty-six minutes they would lose
| thirty-six minutes every day, and that on
| the labor of every man they employed, but
| Supt Fleming says that is a gross
fallacy The clocks in the shops
of the Savannah, Florida and Western are
set by city time, because the men who work
there have nothing TO do with the operation
of the road, and their clocks at home and
all their movements when not at the shop
are governed by city time. 1t causes annoy
ance there, but the company keeps to it for
the convenience of the men. 1t does not
lose thirty-six minutes day, though. In
the matter of labor, the odd six minutes are
knocked off, and tho difference is considered
thirty minutes. So the men go to work at
$50 O'Clock standard or O'Clock city time,
and quit at $50 standard or o'clock city
time.
NO DIFFERENCE WITH LABOR HOURS
The truth is that men go to work at a
certain moment in the morning and il makes
no difference 81 pr as their hours of labor
are concerned whether that moment is called
630 or o'clock If two men start to work,
one at $50 standard and the other at z
o'clock city time, they will both begin work
at the same time They work for five hours
then work for five hours more.
When they quit it will be $50 o'clock to one
and 6 O'clock to the other, but both will
have worked ten hours, and both will have
started and quit at the same moment. 1t
does not really matter to what hour the
hands of the clock point so long as the men
work five hours before and five hours after
dinner. In other words it matters not
whether a mans hours are from $50
to 11:30 and from 1890 to $50
standard time, or from to
IL and to 6 city time Some of the Florida
roads use standard time and the 2-hour
clock system, and their men work from $3.50
to l 80, and from 1890 to 1890, and they
find no inconvenience The division of the
face of the clock is purely arbitrary, and as
IL matter Of fact it does not matter what the
hour is called so long as the men start at the
same moment and do ten hours work.
A FALSE NOTION
The false idea that the standard time
SauSVh u Aooo Vi UNI " -oiN iiiiliuUCo a. uiJ
caused the return to city time when stand
ard time was adopted before, but the idea is
erroneous, and there is no foundation for it.
The double system brings upon Savannah
an enormous amount of ridicue and abuse.
A gentleman said yesterday that it would
cause any man who had the interest of the
city at heart to blush to stand in the CORR
doris of the hotels and hear strangers con-
denim Savannah for her backwardness in
clinging to the old and foolish system. They
cite the fact that Savannah is great
port, the second cotton port ON the coast,
the first naval stores port of the world,
one Of the greatest railroad centres
of the South, one of the most progressive
cities in the country, and yet she retains the
double time system, which is without reason
and great annoyance. They might expect
such thing of baclSwoods village of 500
inhabitants, he said, but they had certainly
thought better of Savannah until they came
here 2nd saw for themselves that city time
is stiA in vogue.